Chuck is the author of the published novels: Blackbirds, Mockingbird, Under the Empyrean Sky, Blue Blazes, Double Dead, Bait Dog,Dinocalypse Now, Beyond Dinocalypse and Gods & Monsters: Unclean Spirits. He also the author of the soon-to-be-published novels: The Cormorant, Blightborn (Heartland Book #2), Heartland Book #3, Dinocalypse Forever, Frack You, and The Hellsblood Bride. Also coming soon is his compilation book of writing advice from this very blog: The Kick-Ass Writer, coming from Writers Digest.

He, along with writing partner Lance Weiler, is an alum of the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter’s Lab (2010). Their short film, Pandemic, showed at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and their feature film HiM is in development with producers Ted Hope and Anne Carey. Together they co-wrote the digital transmedia drama Collapsus, which was nominated for an International Digital Emmy and a Games 4 Change award.

Chuck has contributed over two million words to the game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP). He was a frequent contributor to The Escapist, writing about games and pop culture.

Much of his writing advice has been collected in various writing- and storytelling-related e-books.

He currently lives in the forests of Pennsyltucky with wife, two dogs, and tiny human.

He is likely drunk and untrustworthy. This blog is NSFW and probably NSFL.

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Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. This is his blog. He talks a lot about writing. And food. And pop culture. And his kid. He uses lots of naughty language. NSFW. Probably NSFL. Be advised.

Sked, Stuff, And Other Updatery-Doo

That may change if I have a steady, consistent ability to log on at a distance and make updates, but that is rarely a guarantee whilst on the road due to the way I lockdown access to the site, so it’s more likely we’ll just let the blog be quiet for a couple of weeks. It will sleep. It will wait.

2:00PM: Signing #2! This one is at the Mysterious Galaxy booth, #368, and goes to 2:45.

Then I shall kick around LA for a couple days, until it’s time for…

Stokercon!

I’ll be at Stokercon, guest-of-honoring in the shadow of mega-ultra-guest-of-honor, George R.R. Martin, who I’m excited to meet not so much for that whole ASOIAF thing, but for Wild Cards! And Fevre Dream! The Armageddon Rag!

Otherwise, I’ll be at the other group events, and I’ll be hanging out, just gettin’ weird on an apparently-haunted boat? That’s good, right? I’ll try not to accidentally host any demons in the cauldron of my mortal flesh.

After Stokercon, I go on a —

Long-Ass Drive

I’m driving from CA to CO. I’ll probably be pinging my way from Vegas to Moab to Ouray, and then onward across the goodly state of Colorado to my next and final event of the trip —

The Northern Colorado Writers Conference

Yep, I’m the keynote speaker at the conference — in which I will share my dubious wisdom.

Friday 6:30 – 8PM: Dinner and my Dubious Keynote

Saturday 8-9AM: Author Panel!

Saturday 9:30 – 11AM: Character-Driven Plotting, my class

And then I fly home!

Let’s see, what else is going on?

Updates!

STAR WARS CELEBRATION was genuinely sublime. I remain filled with such gratitude not only to LFL and Del Rey for having me play in their sandbox, but also to the fans who came out — it was a non-stop love-fest, lots of joy for Aftermath and lots of geeking out over the wonderful galaxy of stories that is Star Wars. I got to be on the Star Wars show with Carboni and DeGoots. I stood near John Boyega. I got to sit in a landspeeder and give an interview to SyFy. I got to do a trivia panel with galactic bad-ass, Tim Zahn. I met Steve Blum. I saw a SEEKRIT Weird Al show at the 501st party, with bonus Billy Dee Williams sighting. I got to hang with Delilah Dawson, my spider sister from another mister, who is also writing the Phasma novel coming out in September. And I got to be Cool Dad and bring my family to the event, where my son cosplayed for his first time as Tatooine Luke. It was awesome. I wish I were back there still.

Oh, I also did this interview for Glixel / Rolling Stone, by the way. GO READ IT.

What else? I turned in a draft for my next writing book, which is less about writing and more about storytelling — that book is called DAMN FINE STORY, and should be out (mumble mumble) in the fall? I’ve seen the cover and the cover is weird in the best way.

I also got edits back on The Raptor & The Wren.

I’m writing Vultures now.

Scheming Exeunt.

Writing secret comics project.

Yadda yadda etcetera etcetera.

Ooh ooh ooh, one more thing:

I got to write a cool essay regarding Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, and what that book meant to me when I read it, and what it means to me even now. Go read that, too.

If you’ve got a renta-jeep, skip I70 entirely (actually, just skip I70 anyway). Head down through Telluride and then take the back way over the mountains into Ouray. Otherwise, go north through Durango and Silverton to Ouray. From there you can take I50 (it’s pretty nice) or cut down through South Park and have yourself a ball.